Allan I. McInnes - The British Confederate: Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, C 1607-1661

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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by John Donald

Copyright Allan I. Macinnes, 2011

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The immensely stressful activity of political biography requires unstinting support and assistance, which has readily been forthcoming from a variety of individuals and institutions. This book is the culmination of twenty years of research on the house of Argyll (16031761), funded for the first seven years by Major Research Grants from the British Academy that sponsored access to Inveraray Castle in Argyllshire, Dumfries House in Ayrshire and at Buckminster, Grantham in Lincolnshire. For permission to work at Inveraray Castle, I am immensely indebted to the Trustees of the 10th Duke of Argyll and to the advice and acumen of the former chief executive of the ClanCampbell, Alastair Campbell of Airds. I must also thank the same Trustees and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh for permission to reproduce the paintings of Archibald Campbell as Lord Lorne, 8th Earl and Marquess of Argyll. I am also grateful for the permissions for archival research at Dumfries House and Mount Stuart from the late Marquess of Bute, and at Buckminster from the Tollemache family. In collating this material, I had the privilege of working with three diligent research assistants: Fiona MacDonald, Fiona Watson and, above all, Linda Fryer, for whose aid in structuring and systematically organising the sources I shall be eternally grateful. My work on the Loudoun Scottish Collection and related papers at the Huntington Library in California was facilitated by three research fellowships in 1993, 2002 and 2005, as it also was by generous assistance from Roy Ritchie (W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research) and Mary Robertson (William A. Moffet Chief Curator of Manuscripts). In having first a sabbatical and then a relatively light teaching load in the last three years to aid writing up, I must thank my colleagues at the University of Strathclyde and in particular the head of department, Richard Finlay, who was instrumental in bringing me to this useful place of learning in 2007. My researches have been further aided by helpful assistance from staff in Rigsarkivet in Copenhagen and Newberry Library in Chicago, the Folger Library in Washington D.C. and the New York Public Library in the United States. George MacKenzie as Keeper of the Records and his staff in the National Archives of Scotland have been particularly helpful, as have the staff in that other Edinburgh institution, the National Library of Scotland, as have those in the British Library and The National Archives in London. I have been very well served by staff at the Bodleian in Oxford and at the university archives in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Hull and St Andrews, as I have in Duke at Durham in North Carolina. I also appreciate the assistance I have received in the city and local archives in Aberdeen, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dundee, Glasgow, Newcastle and Westminster. Special mention in this context must be given to the sterling support and historical insights received from Murdo MacDonald, now retired as archivist to the Argyll and Bute District.

Much intellectual sustenance has been derived from my former graduate students at Aberdeen, namely Kirsteen MacKenzie, Barry Robertson, David Menarry, Aonghus MacCoinnich and Tom McInally. I should also like to thank my undergraduate students at Glasgow, Aberdeen, Chicago and Strathclyde who helped shape my ideas on the Marquess of Argyll and the Covenanting Movement. I owe a special thanks to Alexia Grosjean, John Scally and David Scott for making important archival material available to me. I have also received illuminating insights on the Marquess of Argyll from John Young, Steve Murdoch, John Adamson, John Morrison and Keith Brown. I must also thank the usual suspects for their comradeship, contentiousness and conversation, namely Sarah Barber, Ciaran Brady, Mike Broers, Ali Cathcart, Steven Ellis, Tim Harris, Peter Lake, Patrick Little, Catriona MacDonald, Roger Mason, Esther Mijers, Edward Opalinski, Jason Peacey, Steve Pincus, Thomas Riis, Jean-Frdric Schaub, Kevin Sharpe and last, but by no means least, Art Williamson.

Much needed spiritual sustenance continues to be provided in St Margarets in the Gallowgate from my fellow hill walker Emsley Nimmo, Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney, and in the Stead Inn, Potterton from the lads in the local appreciation society for Scotch single malt whisky. I must thank John and Val Tuckwell for their continuing encouragement to embark upon and complete this political biography. I also thank the academic managing editor, Mairi Sutherland, for her encouragement, understanding and forbearance. I should further like to thank Jacqueline Young for her assiduous, constructive and sympathetic copy editing. Finally, I should like to thank my family in both Scotland and Denmark for their love and support, and especially my wife Tine Wanning.

The sins of omission and commission in the production of this book are solely mine.